[Verse 1]
I woke before the morning
Before the world had made a sound
No engine in the distance
No trouble coming down Just breath inside the silence
Just light across the floor
And all the things I thought I needed
Didn’t need me anymore [Verse 2]
I left the keys on the table
Left the weight beside the bed
Let the old ghosts keep their stories
Let the noise stay in my head There’s a road outside the window
There’s a sky I haven’t tried
And something in me moving
That I thought had already died [Chorus]
And I feel it now
Like a river under stone
Like a fire in the roots
Like a seed coming home I don’t need the crown
I don’t need the fight
When the world falls away
What remains comes alive [Verse 3]
There’s a hand I should have held more
There’s a truth I should have named
There were years I spent defending
Things that never knew my name But the heart is not a ruin
Just because it learned to break
And the soul is not finished
Just because it had to wait [Chorus]
And I feel it now
Like a river under stone
Like a fire in the roots
Like a seed coming home I don’t need the crown
I don’t need the fight
When the world falls away
What remains comes alive [Bridge — rising, hopeful]
Let the morning find me open
Let the weather have its say
Let the past become the ashes
That the wind can carry away I was never what I carried
I was never what I owned
I was only something waking
Trying to make its way home [Final Chorus — driving, bright, acoustic]
And I feel it now
Like a river under stone
Like a fire in the roots
Like a seed coming home I don’t need the crown
I don’t need the fight
When the world falls away
What remains comes alive [Outro]
What remains comes alive
What was buried learns to rise
Empty hands, open sky
What remains comes alive